Advancing Midwifery Practice
Lead: Professor Caroline Joy Hollins-Martin
The Midwifery Research Group at Salford draws together research strengths in understanding and theorizing the physical, psychosocial and socio-cultural determinants of maternal, fetal and neonatal health. This includes developing, assessing and evaluating theory-informed measuring tools and interventions that set about improving the childbearing experiences and outcomes for women, partners and families.
Key areas of interest that relate to the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work research programme Advancing Midwifery Practice, include:
- Assessing ante, intra and postnatal outcomes,
- Psychosocial components of maternal health management,
- Advancing quality of fetal and neonatal care
- Education as part of the midwives role.
A core feature of the Midwifery Research Group’s work relates to improving women’s childbearing experiences. A variety of qualitative and quantitative approaches are incorporate to obtaining this end. Methods used are pluralistic and include experimental design, action research, surveys and qualitative research.
